infrastructure September 2008

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62 discussions

Introduction
by TJ Davis 08 Sep '08

08 Sep '08

Hi All, I have been watching this email list for awhile and decided to finally introduce myself. I am TJ Davis from West Texas but I currently live in Belize. I am an independent software consultant for several universities. I mostly do database consulting on MSSQL but have about 10 years of experience with LAMP and Linux administration. I have not managed enterprise level systems but have managed 6 Linux servers doing various tasks for a university for 10 years. I also have a good amount of experience with OpenVPN as well as SpamAssassin/Amavis/Maia/Clamv. I will start reading over tickets soon and try to pick some once I have been accepted. But, in the mean time, if anyone knows where I might fit in best give me a shout. I will be on #fedora-admin as tjdavisbz as much as possible. Tj

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archives on secondary1
by Matt Domsch 06 Sep '08

06 Sep '08

quick sanity check. archives.fp.o is on secondary1.fp.o, right? There are 2 separate rsyncd.conf files in puppet, one for archives, one for secondary. Given they land at the same place on the same machine, only the one for secondary is actually in effect. If they're going to be on the same machine, we need to merge them. yes? Thanks, Matt -- Matt Domsch Linux Technology Strategist, Dell Office of the CTO linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux

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Test fedora-release packages for F8 and F9
by Warren Togami 06 Sep '08

06 Sep '08

http://togami.com/~warren/fedora/fedora-release-8-5.transitiontest1.noarch.… http://togami.com/~warren/fedora/fedora-release-9-3.transitiontest1.noarch.… Test fedora-release packages pointing at the newkey update repos. Attached are sha1sums GPG clearsigned by my personal GPG keyid 54A2ACF1. Some cursory tests have indicated that no typos are in these new .repo files. Please test these and report if you see any errors. The F9 version seems to work fine with yum, but unfortunately it exposes one or more nasty bugs in PackageKit so we likely need more work before updates can go live. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/rel-eng/2008-September/001702.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/rel-eng/2008-September/001704.html Discussion ensues about our options for the F9 PackageKit problem... http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/rel-eng/2008-August/001627.html These packages are drafts the first fedora-release of the newrepo process. After this has settled in we will push another fedora-release in the newrepo signed by the newkey in order to complete the transition and eliminate the old repos from the user's system. Warren Togami wtogami(a)redhat.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 b2938496b2f57b0b8340c436aac4064802d5b9c6 fedora-release-8-5.transitiontest1.noarch.rpm bf9338d4f04dcdf733946ded9d375f7631383187 fedora-release-8-5.transitiontest1.src.rpm d9d26a1061079bf4580a892d668ae569cafe8081 fedora-release-9-3.transitiontest1.noarch.rpm f01c1749470a7e296408ab6338857e326fe6457e fedora-release-9-3.transitiontest1.src.rpm -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkjCMVcACgkQa93+jlSirPFLrQCfbAgUaumBGWy5YfDOc8Sbn6l3 W6MAnj501zCkRN3Jb+JM0+YdAQsHjfFr =ftuj -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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need approval
by sujan sunil pilli 05 Sep '08

05 Sep '08

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staging environment discussion
by Mike McGrath 05 Sep '08

05 Sep '08

So as many of you have seen in the commits lists, the staging environment is coming along and getting built. I've hit a policy issue and so I thought instead of just doing this in a black hole. I'd discuss it. The way I see it there are two ways to do staging environments. For those of you unfamiliar with staging the general idea is to have an environment as close to production as feasible. 1) use identical configs with only minor changes and use /etc/hosts to fake things to point where you need them. Not always possible but generally good where you can do it. 2) use different configs in production and staging. The differences being able to redirect things, using different usernames, passwords, hostnames, etc. Each has pros and cons. Right now I'd like to do 1) but I don't think its possible. 2) is going to require a lot of focus. For example... we won't be able to just git merge from staging to production as we could with 1). Security's only an issue in that we don't want people making changes to production data from staging and vise versa. The same people will have the same access to both of these environments without exception. I'm going to continue to think about this. I've had staging environments in the past. Both went with option 2). But still. I'd like to hold this discussion so discuss. -Mike

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Interested in doing some fedora cvs work
by Huzaifa Sidhpurwala 05 Sep '08

05 Sep '08

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi All, Now that i am in the sysadmin group. I have taken a thorough look at all the other FIGS which are listed. I have also taken a look at the kind of work the people in the FIGS do and i would like to get involved with the cvs group. I have a good amount of technical experience with cvs and svn, so that should not be a barrier. Can Mike, Bill or Dennis, sponsor me to this group please? Thanks a lot. - -- Regards, Huzaifa Sidhpurwala, RHCE, CCNA (IRC: huzaifas) GnuPG Fingerprint: 3A0F DAFB 9279 02ED 273B FFE9 CC70 DCF2 DA5B DAE5 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Red Hat - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIwNnkzHDc8tpb2uURApOKAJ95P7ND8Wt68Xm+1FuPd45gIYLT3ACePwEe UotTlcg06khaN2pjWpK/isI= =eHs6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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(no subject)
by sujan sunil pilli 05 Sep '08

05 Sep '08

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need approval
by Amitakhya Phukan 04 Sep '08

04 Sep '08

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I am interested in joining the Fedora Infrastructure team. I am interested in general sysadmin, sysadmin-test and sysadmin-hosted groups. Can anyone sponsor me ? Regards, Amit. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAki/ejgACgkQisV6fTFpwA2q6gCfSKBiIHW7DdQIxykaLuXGjc7c Q/AAnjgT8MhfNGL2BPUuPYWQUQkxhwen =oDSZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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a quick self-introduction
by Bret McMillan 03 Sep '08

03 Sep '08

Hey folks, I've been lurking in the infrastructure area for awhile, but just recently joined the list. jonrob & mmcgrath have been kind enough to work w/ me on blog stuff for news.fp.org, etc. I've been an RH employee for a number of years, mostly in RHN engineering, but now recently in IT working on collaborative applications. I'd classify myself as a marginal SA, but always willing to learn and help out :) Current interests: * blogs (wordpress-mu) * wikis * mobile devices * CDN's * opening RH's IT tooling & methods to be more open and in alignment w/ what the community is doing cheers, --Bret

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Paul VanGundy - Introduction
by Paul VanGundy 03 Sep '08

03 Sep '08

Hello List! :) My name is Paul VanGundy and this is my introduction to the list. No worries as I will make this short and sweet and if there are questions or people want to know more about me they can email me or the list. I have eight years experience in Linux systems administration in many different parallels (government, education, enterprise) with which I am currently serving in enterprise. Nutshelling, I have worked with many different flavors of Linux but mainly Red Hat, CentOS and Fedora in the enterprise market. I have done everything from managing large email farms running on Red Hat (my stints at WebEx and Cisco), running CentOS (both physical and virtual) in development environments (WebEx, Cisco, Bradford Networks) to helping school districts reach there educational potentional by using open source projects such as LTSP (of which I have written a pdf doc that is used world over but a little outdated... see wiki.ltsp.org). I have many other skills, abilities and experience that I will not list as I want to keep this short and sweet. I do welcome questions and am very eager to help the Fedora Project and utilize my skills to give back to those that have given to me. I look forward to working with all of you! Cheers!! /paul

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